News from the Ecuadorian Amazon…

On6 avril 2013

As expected, they are not good news. At least not for the indegenous peoples living in voluntary isolation: the Taromenane.

« A group of indigenous Waorani warriors has allegedly carried out revenge killings against other indigenous people deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon. […] Unverified reports indicate that an entire family of perhaps 18 people was massacred when the armed Waorani came across a Taromenane home deep in the forest. »

Even though killings have always occured between tribes in the Amazon, it is now completely different than what it used to be: deforestation, oil and guns are now common in the Yasuni National park and its surroundings. And many of the Waoranis have partially traded their ancestral way of life for some commodity, making them a unique entity, influenced by a mix of both cultures. And that’s something not easy to deal with.